| Aphrodite fritillary | |
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| S. a. alcestis | |
| Conservation status | |
 Secure (NatureServe) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Speyeria |
| Species: | S. aphrodite |
| Binomial name | |
| Speyeria aphrodite (Fabricius, 1787) | |
The Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite) is a fritillary butterfly, from North America.
This orange coloured fritillary has rows of dark dots or chevrons at the wing edges and black or brown lines more proximally. The ventral sides of the wings are also orange with several rows of white dots. Its wingspan is between 51 and 73 mm.
Aphrodite fritillaries are sensitive to temperature with population trajectories showing declines in response to climate warming trends.
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically:
- S. a. alcestis (Edwards, 1876)
- S. a. byblis (Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
- S. a. columbia (H. Edwards, 1877)
- S. a. ethene (Hemming, 1933)
- S. a. manitoba (F. & R. Chermock, 1940)
- S. a. whitehousei (Gunder, 1932)
- S. a. winni (Gunder, 1932)
Similar species
- Atlantis fritillary (Speyeria atlantis)
- Great spangled fritillary (Speyeria cybele)
- Northwestern fritillary (Speyeria hesperis)
References
- "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Speyeria aphrodite Aphrodite Fritillary". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- Aphrodite Fritillary, Wisconsin Butterflies
- Brock JP and Kaufman K. Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America, New York:Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003.
- Aphrodite Fritillary, Butterflies of Canada
- Geest, Emily A; Baum, Kristen A (2021-06-01). "Environmental Variables Influencing Five Speyeria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Species' Potential Distributions of Suitable Habitat in the Eastern United States". Environmental Entomology. 50 (3): 633–648. doi:10.1093/ee/nvab001. ISSN 0046-225X. PMID 33561201.
- ^ Breed, Greg A.; Stichter, Sharon; Crone, Elizabeth E. (2013). "Climate-driven changes in northeastern US butterfly communities". Nature Climate Change. 3 (2): 142–145. Bibcode:2013NatCC...3..142B. doi:10.1038/nclimate1663. ISSN 1758-6798.
- "Speyeria Scudder, 1872" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Further reading
- Breed, Greg A.; Stichter, Sharon; Crone, Elizabeth E. (February 2013). "Climate-driven changes in northeastern US butterfly communities". Nature Climate Change. 3 (2): 142–145. Bibcode:2013NatCC...3..142B. doi:10.1038/nclimate1663.
- Parmesan, Camille (December 2006). "Ecological and Evolutionary Responses to Recent Climate Change". Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 37 (1): 637–669. doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.37.091305.110100.
External links
- Aphrodite Fritillary, Talk about Wildlife
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| Speyeria aphrodite |
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